Currently I'm using assy 2, which to me one of the best compare to other during that time(PS3, Hankook S1 Evo etc) although i havent get a chance to try re002

Yeah the Goodyear F1 series are excellent all rounder UHP tires, closely matching up to Michelin Pilot Sport series. The thing is with the Assy treads, many of the cuts are shallow so they quickly turn bald looking almost like real F1 grooved tires from a decade ago! 😂 The other thing is they're still made in Germany or Europe so the prices are high, can be higher than the already expensive PS4 coz PS4 is already made in Thailand hence a bit more affordable. Finally F1A are never available in our market in under 17' size while PS3/4 have. Btw I'm also about to finish my F1A2 shortly. The F1A5 might take sometime before available in our market. Patterns still looks very similar to previous ones.

Skipped 4 straight go 5? Didn't know the europeans also have this sort of pantang....really so desperate want to one up michelin ps4 because now generation 5??

If pattern similar, that means more of a compound update, then the more "melodrama" to skip 4??!!

Maybe compound and construction. Yeah like CSC, jump from 3 to 5, not sure why.

well i guess if they intend to sell at asian market they had to know about that kinda pantang

But michelin ps4 still sells so damn well....

Not to mention the playstation 4....

maybe they'll sell even more if they skip and gone straight to 5, lol just speculating
from business point of view there's no harm to skip numbers, some company just play safe probably

Btw speaking of GY F1, now they also release the Super Sport series!

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/The-n...Sport-Range.htm

Wow.. but what took them so long? Goodyear is quite behind in the UUHP to be honest..

Yeah but granted their F1A2/3 have been doing a respectable job for them in the so called max category comparisons so maybe that's why they didn't feel the need yet.

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Dec 20 2018, 09:27 AM

Thus, finally which tyre u went with?

no idea at the moment,there's literally zero local owner reviews regarding the few tires that i shortlisted,
i'm heavily leaning towards fk510 and proxes cf2(new candidates) but there's still about 3mm thread left on my tires at this moment so i'll take my own sweet time

gotten the turanza T005A at 350 bucks a piece yesterday
let it scrub in for a few days i'll be giving my initial impression

Hahaha after asking all those UHP, end up only getting mid range category. 😌

well just because someone asked doesn't mean they get satisfactory amount of information to decide, I'll have to operate base on what i know,there's almost zero user feedback from many of the uhp tire i included, so i just pick the safer and good deal option.
rather be contented with cheap choice than to be disappointed with expensive high wearing hard riding tire that may not delivered the result expected

Well at least there are already so many good feedback on V12E2, and at rm350/pc it's also about the same price as your lower category T005A and yet it's surely the better performing tire in almost every way. Anyway tire bought already so no point coz cannot turn back so case closed. 😁

honestly i see you're the only one who strongly promote v12e2 everywhere, so much so i thought you're hankook dealer
the uk review had mixed to bad comment bout them and i had some bad experience with hankook in the past so yeah, sorry for not buying into your opinion

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Mar 9 2019, 03:51 PM

Not just me la, got several others also and we're all end users too. Same case with PS4. Sure the UK review had negative points but you need to see the negatives was relative compared to what tires?? All top level tires with super expensive prices (PS4S, Continental ECS, Pirelli Pz4, F1A3)! Nevermind bro, we're just suggesting based on what we know best, up to everyone to accept or not, we don't really care coz not our money nor our cars. 😂 I have suggested T005 before too on certain cases so not that it's a bad tire, just not best value for money I think. If you had bad experience a before with certain Hankook models then yeah, I understand that might be hard to ignore too. Maybe in turn you can share to us what was the bad experience and with which model? That could be helpful for everyone so take note. Sharing is caring, that's what forums like this are for actually.

Is a wise choice bro , the T005A is the new flagship model in Bridgestone’s Turanza range of touring tyres, which might not be high performance like potenza series , but its still on par with michelin primacy series now todate , comfort and quite ride =)

Hankook dealer? I dont think so ...

actually i went with T005a ultimately because its the only tire i really tested here,i know what to expect,i test drove the new camry that's factory fitted with 18 inch T005a,the steering feel is great but not hard at the same time,granted its only one dimensional data point as its impossible to drive another camry with different tire,but i like what i felt so far
value wise,i see some value with bridgestone being a first tier tire manufacturer,right up there with michelin pirelli,while hankook is a mid range manufacturer,but on the flipside V12e2 being UHP belong to a more expensive category,so i guess it evens out with Turanza touring tire more or less in term of value.
the real valuable feedback here for me is DS51 comment who was using PS4 but say cannot feel anything at lower speed compare to primacy,and that's the no.1 de facto UHP tire already,if so what can i expect from no.3 or 4 or 5 ranking UHP tire and i predominantly drive at legal speed
nuances is the keyword here,i'm not looking for ultimate grip as i'm not trying to break any lap records,i just miss the sharp turn in,very direct steering feel from michelin pp2,you can feel the grip even in low speed driving,it really spices up the driving experience without going bat shit crazy with speed.
honestly i can't remember the hankook model,it was 2011 i'm not very tire savvy at that time, but all my four relatively new hankook tire bloated after just one trip up and down cameron highland,and 3 tires totally lost pressure the next day,but yeah,should not generalize the whole hankook line up base on just one low end model but there's so many brand to choose from why want to risk it again
so that's my thought process,nothing personal,just being rational

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Mar 10 2019, 03:55 PM